(re)building

Opportunities for Collaboration for 

New York's Cultural Heritage Institutions 


New York Archives Conference | June 6, 2013 | LIU

Jason Kucsma | Executive Director, METRO



About ME

American Culture Studies

Clamor Magazine

Allied Media Conference

SIRLS, UofAZ

METRO

@J450NK




BUILDING


Organizing
Relationships
Creation of something new




Our FOCUS FOR TODAY


What the hell is collaboration?

Why is it so damn hard? 

What is the point? 

Where do we start?  




What we Talk about
when we TALK
about Collaboration.






Cooperation

German Traces




COORDINATIOn

METRO/ART/ACRL/SLA




COLLABORATION

the continuum

+ risk

+ investment

++ benefit




IF IT WAS EASY, EVERYONE WOULD
BE DOING IT. 



Fear factors

Admitting what we don't know
Vagueness
Too much talk
Too much sharing
Conflict
More work
Who gets the props? Blame? 




THERE's A PAYOFF HERE, RIGHT?




CIRCUMSTANCE





OPPORTUNITY




STRATEGy





We're In!

Where Do we START?




Open Up.




EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY.




SEEK out unusual Suspects. 




DEFINE WINNABLE GOALS. 




EXPECT MORE...

from ourselves. 

from our colleagues. 

from our member organizations. 




AN OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF.




ENVISIONING AN INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NEW YORK





WHAT IS i2NY? 

Summit
Survey
Schools
Steps


Like many others throughout the country, New York libraries and archives have been tasked with providing more essential services with fewer financial resources an equation that is clearly unsustainable. 

Instead, libraries and archives must focus on doing more with more, building on existing collaborations and developing new ones, removing barriers to cooperation, and proving that working together ultimately improves the services provided to constituent communities.



KEY FINDINGS

Equitable access

Greater collaboration

Innovative professional development

Connecting libary/archives services to lifelong learning

Improved communication





Immediate Priorities




Equitable Access

Working groups to:

develop manifesto on licensing terms

explore on-demand journal purchasing

develop negotiating toolkit

develop statewide acquisitions cooperative




EBOOK

scaling up existing PDA ebook pilot




PUBLISHING

Preliminary conversations around facilitation publishing work in libraries and archives






DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

Enter DPLA

Creating an onramp to DPLA for New York State's cultural heritage collections





CAVEAT AND CALL TO ACTION

This will never work for us....

until it does.

Be open.  






THANK YOU!


jkucsma@metro.org
@J450NK

Articles/Sites referenced available at: 
http://bit.ly/nyac13plenary
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